The Southern Poverty Law Center has made big bucks over the years by labeling conservative organizations tools of hate and extremism.
Now the finger-pointing has turned inward.
The SPCL is under fire, facing multiple accusations of racism and sexual harassment. The founder, Morris Dees, has been abruptly fired; the president, Richard Cohen, and legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, have suddenly resigned.
According to The New York Times, employees with the organization wrote to SPLC leaders, detailing“allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination and racism” that “threaten the moral authority” and the “integrity” of SPLC’s mission.
My, how the hypocrisy flows.
This is the same group that labeled the Family Research Council — the pro-traditional family Family Research Council! — a hate group. This is the same group that called out Ben Carson, pediatric surgeon-turned-politician, an extremist. This is the same group that has been trying to shutter conservative speech for years by tossing out hate tags and unfairly affixing extremist labels — and that continues, to this day, to work with social media to shutter conservative speech.
Now the finger-pointing has turned inward.
The SPCL is under fire, facing multiple accusations of racism and sexual harassment. The founder, Morris Dees, has been abruptly fired; the president, Richard Cohen, and legal director, Rhonda Brownstein, have suddenly resigned.
According to The New York Times, employees with the organization wrote to SPLC leaders, detailing“allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination and racism” that “threaten the moral authority” and the “integrity” of SPLC’s mission.
My, how the hypocrisy flows.
This is the same group that labeled the Family Research Council — the pro-traditional family Family Research Council! — a hate group. This is the same group that called out Ben Carson, pediatric surgeon-turned-politician, an extremist. This is the same group that has been trying to shutter conservative speech for years by tossing out hate tags and unfairly affixing extremist labels — and that continues, to this day, to work with social media to shutter conservative speech.
Morris Dees SPLC by Tim Pierce is licensed under Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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